Ok. Avatar explanation was done. Now explain your username..

[Hawkeye-X]

I love M*A*S*H, and I identify with Hawkeye very well. I am *NOT* from Iowa or support Iowa Hawkeyes so get your mind outta the gutter...

[billyoc]

1. Just my own name, Billy O'Connor.

I've been using that since the '80s for a userid/email address.

[bluethruandthru]

26. I thought you were the guy who sang "Caribbean Queen"!

:hi:

[some guy]

2. I wanted to be talked about

...yet remain anonymous. People are always saying some guy <this> some guy <that> it amused me.

[Adsos Letter]

20. So YOU'RE the guy...

:D

[some guy]

21. yep

:blush:

I'm sorry about that thing that time. I didn't know it was you. :P

[Adsos Letter]

22. Hey, no problem...

...the witnesses just said "some guy" did it...it really was no big deal...kinda cool, actually...it didn't take 'em long to get things working again.

:D

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Well, I live in California, and have for many years...

And my name really is Peggy!

Simple enough!

I'll never change it....it's part of me now!

:hi:

[Hawkeye-X]

4. And it fits!

:toast:

[Parche]

69. Famous Submarine USS Parche ss384

[Parche]

70. Name

My Dear CaliforniaPeggy,

But you PM'd everyone and said your name was Gladys Kravitz and you live in Dothan, Alabama...what gives?????
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:

[lost-in-nj]

5. mine

is self explanatory....
I believe it......



lost

[billyskank]

82. I'll come and find you.

Then you can be found-in-nj.

:hi:

[wildhorses]

6. matches my avatar

:P

[applegrove]

7. All my ancestors that I know about had at least one apple tree or an orchard

on their property. So I'm part of an applegrove. Even though grove is the wrong word..I like it.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. I am the great aunt of triplets.

Also of three acquired-by-marriage greats, who are not triplets. Now a total of four great-nephews and two great-nieces. Plus, my nephew and his wife are expecting their first next winter.

[FarLeftRage]

9. I am a Far Leftist and I am in a Rage

over the injustices that I see all around me!

[HuskerDU]

10. You don't deserve the name 'Hawkeye' with an attitude

like that!

I'm an Iowa Hawkeye WAAAAY before I'm a Dem my friend!

Husker DU has nothing to do with Nebraska, great state, lovely people BTW. Husker DU is for the old 80s band. I was obsessed with DU and wanted DU in my username.

[evlbstrd]

11. It's simple, really.

It's derived from the name of a former business of mine and I wanted to see how far I could get with mostly syllables. Turns out I've been using it since the BBS days.

[TOhioLiberal]

12. TOhioLiberal:

T stands for Toledo.
Ohio is, well Ohio, my state.
Liberal is what I am.

[Ptah]

13. It's what people used to say to my ex.

Please Take Asshole Home

[lost-in-nj]

19. OMG

I had no idea!!!!

cool


:rofl: :rofl:

lost

[Ptah]

31. Actually, it's an Egyptian god.

Ptah



It was said (in the Shabaka Stone) that it was Ptah who called the world into
being, having dreamt creation in his heart, and speaking it, his name meaning
opener, in the sense of opener of the mouth. Indeed the opening of the mouth
ceremony, performed by priests at funerals to release souls from their corpses,
was said to have been created by Ptah. Atum was said to have been created by
Ptah to rule over the creation, sitting upon the primordial mound.

In art, he is portrayed as a bearded mummified man, often wearing a skull cap,
with his hands holding an ankh, was, and djed, the symbols of life, power and
stability, respectively. It was also considered that Ptah manifested himself
in the Apis bull.



In Memphis, Ptah was worshipped in his own right, and was seen as Atum's father,
or rather, the father of Nefertum, the younger form of Atum. When the beliefs
about the Ennead and Ogdoad were later merged, and Atum was identified as
Ra (Atum-Ra), himself seen as Horus (Ra-Herakhty), this led to Ptah being
said to be married to Sekhmet, at the time considered the earlier form of
Hathor, Horus', thus Atum's, mother.



Since Ptah was the primordial mound, and had called creation into being,
he was considered the god of craftsmen, and in particular stone-based crafts.
Eventually, due to the connection of these things to tombs, and that at Thebes,
the craftsmen regarded him so highly as to say that he controlled their destiny.
Consequently, first amongst the craftsmen, then the population as a whole,
Ptah also became a god of reincarnation. Since Seker was also god of craftsmen,
and of re-incarnation, Seker was later assimilated with Ptah becoming Ptah-Seker.

Edit to add Wiki link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptah

[Adsos Letter]

14. Mine comes from a 10th century monk by the name of Adso...

who wrote a letter to the queen of the Frankish people describing what he understood about the Antichrist. He did so in response to the queen's inquiry as to whether or not the Norse raids then occurring along the "French" coast might not be precursors of Antichrist's appearance.

I earned a BA in History in college (going back next month to finish the MA) and spent a lot of time studying how different groups in history had interpreted apocalyptic themes.

Adso's Letter represents the standard Medieval interpretation of the subject. It also shows the devastating impact the Norse raids had on the psyche of the populace, in that they equated it with the End of Times...

It's worth a read, if only for the degree of detail and fantastic characterizations which had developed by that time, considering the Bible contains only a couple of vague references to the fellow...

http://www.apocalyptic-theories.com/theories/antichrist/antichristtext.html

:D :hi:

Edit:...spelling... :dunce:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

15. No! If you can't figure mine out, you're a fucking moron.

:P

[Writer]

16. Well... I... ummm... it's all rather simple.

;)

[SPKrazy]

17. It's self explanatory

and if you can't figure it out

then

well


:shrug:

too bad :P

:rofl:

[Hawkeye-X]

25. Now, that's the username I need you to *explain* to me..

Left-handed booties?

[flvegan]

18. Some folks think that I have five gans. But I don't.

hee hee

I am, however a vegan living in fl-orida.

[Adsos Letter]

23. well...it's a relief to get the whole "gans" thing straightened out...

:D

[bicentennial_baby]

29. i used to think that you were just

a Fly Vegan...then I read more carefully :rofl:

[flvegan]

30. Oh, I'm a fly vegan

straight up.

Word.

Or something.

[no name no slogan]

24. your guess is as good as mine

[greymattermom]

27. greymatternom

I'm a neuroscientist. My son is a musician performing under the name infinite grey, using the British spelling of gray.

[Inchworm]

28. Oh dee of little mick...

:rofl:

[Fire Walk With Me]

32. It's just my last name. Boring.

I don't want to give Agent Mike the extra thrill of searching through proxies and routers if he ever comes after me.

Plus, it causes me to be responsible for what I say online.

[Dinger]

33. O.K.

I live in northern Wisconsin. I am a very busy person, and am hard to get ahold of. Here we either say, I'm bummin' around or dingin' around, which means I am gone from home a lot. Therefore, I am called "Dinger."

[opiate69]

34. OK....

Mine has several meanings..
"Opiate" = The title of Tool's first CD
"69" = the year I was born
"Opiate" = A reference to the quote "Reliogion is the Opiate of the masses"
"69" = well.. let's just say that in some ways I'm 38 going on 16.

[Mojambo]

35. So Kramer and Newman are having an argument...

Kramer exclaims, "You better think again, Mojambo!"

And I took it for my own.

[Fox Mulder]

36. Only the best tv character ever.

[Zoigal]

37. Owned by a couple of

borzoi dogs (used to be called Russian wolfhounds)...

[Taverner]

38. Taverner, the character from PK Dick's "Flow My Tears The Policeman Said"

[EstimatedProphet]

39. Grateful Dead song

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

40. It should be obvious, but here's a big hint.

One of my favorite movies. No idea why.

[Maddy McCall]

41. I was jchild for two years...then changed my name to the current one...

to honor my scottie that was killed about a month after I joined DU.

Her name was Maddy McCall.

:(

[Hawkeye-X]

59. Hey! Was wondering where jchild was..

Nice to see that you are one and the same...! :hug:

[Rhiannon12866]

68. Oh, I am so sorry!!! ;( :hug:

But I also remember you as jchild, though was aware of the name change. You were very kind to me when I first joined DU because I couldn't post a pic of my two dogs, so you did it for me. I lost my cocker, Sheena, in 2003, and her little buddy was never the same after that. I just lost him two months ago and it broke my heart. I haven't been the same since, kind of went off the deep end and just came back to DU recently. He's the little one in my sig sticking his tongue out... ;(

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[MassLiberal]

42. I grew up in the great commonwealth of Massachusetts

and I got fed up with Bush denigrating "those Massachusetts liberals." I'm proud to be one! (even though I don't live there anymore)

[Seashell Eyes]

43. My name is Julia

and I was named after the Beatle's song "Julia." Seashell eyes is a lyric from that song.

[u4ic]

44. euphoric

:-)

[Nevernose]

45. Tomorrow Never Knows, from Revolver

Except the email addy I got used to came a few years before the great DU amnesty.

[Richard Steele]

46. Just my real name without caps. nm

[lildreamer316]

47. Ask Oedipus Rex...

he seems to have me pegged tonight.
Oops. Nevermind; that came out wrong.
(see thread about stockings).

[Connonym]

64. LOL

It's a VH reference isn't it? At least that's what I always assumed.

Mine is a word I made up -- you know about antonyms, homonyms and synonyms but did you know that you could call a Connie a Connonym? Yeah, it's dorky and lame but there ya go.

[lildreamer316]

71. LOL!!

That's cute. I like it.

[S n o w b a l l]

48. engi=good luck in japanese

[Omphaloskepsis]

49. I was drunk and threw my cat at the keyboard.

This is the result. I usually do the same when I post. Meow.

[Callalily]

50. Mine is pretty

self explanatory. It's a polyphonic composition where themes are stated in all voices of the structure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUT-2tU2Yk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NVmIH6tDAQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UEHcvDEKvI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miB8p0Kgv5c

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/simplefuguesaof.html

Suspect more than you wanted to know.

[conscious evolution]

51. Mine comes from a song

by Donna The Buffalo http://www.archive.org/download/donna2005-11-11.flacf/donna2005-11-11d2t06_64kb.mp3

[masshole]

52. I don't live in Connecticut

and if the shoe fits...

[AggieGal]

53. I like the Aggies of Texas A&M

and I am a gal. Thus AggieGal was created.

[Mutley]

54. Muttley is my favorite Hannah Barbara character.

I took the liberty of changing the spelling to the way I like it, because I also signed up for DU right around the time I got my dog. She's a mutley. I usually have Muttley in my avatar, but I've fallen behind on my DU donations. :o

As for the "r_us"... I'll just say I used to be a Toys R Us kid. If there were another name change amnesty, I'd probably drop the "r_us", and stick with Mutley.

[Rhiannon12866]

55. My late beloved cat, who was one of the most amazing beings I will ever know.

And I lost her far too soon. And, of course, she was named after the Stevie Nicks song. And, since there was already a Rhiannon registered on DU (who never even posted once, I looked :-( ), I just stuck on my zip code...:shrug:

The actual Rhiannon:

[GenDem]

56. I didn't put much thought into it

Gen -- Genesee (my county)
Dem -- I belong and support the Democratic party

Now that I have to live with it forever, I wish I had been a little more creative.

[taterguy]

57. I was looking at this object when I registered

Makes perfect sense now doesn't it?

[AllegroRondo]

58. its a musical term

im a former professional musician.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

60. Well, this goes back to my Counter-Strike days

I just thought the name Dragonbreath was cool and it started to stick, and I loved using the FN-P90 on CS (wish I could get my hands on a real one, those things are marvels of technology) so I added p9d on the end

[deepthought42]

61. Must I explain everything?

:rofl:

If you don't get mine, you don't get the answer to life, the universe, and everything. :P

;)

[Road Scholar]

63. Amen!

Transit for engineering. That's all I got to say.

[realisticphish]

62. realisticphish

when I was in college, my roommate freshman year had acquired some stupid little slide-the-block puzzle, which depicted, "realistic fish."

I was really into Phish at the time, so there we go

[mvd]

65. Simple

m is the first letter in my first name
v is the first letter in my middle name
d is the first letter in my last name

[SKKY]

66. Mine is pretty self-explanatory...

..I'm in the Navy, and liberal.

[ceile]

67. My border collie's name.

My ex and I "share" the dogs, but because I don't have a yard I only see them a few times a year. :cry:

[sakabatou]

72. Weapon of Kenshin Himura

[TZ]

73. My old cat was named Turtle

and I am Susan. I live alone except for kitty companions so it was unique and accurate. I keep it in memory of dear Turtle who lost her brave struggle agaisnt cancer in September of 2005.:(

[asthmaticeog]

74. No.

[Aristus]

75. Aristus is a Latinification of the Greek name Aristocles.

Aristocles was Plato's real name. "Platon", his wrestling nickname, means "broadshouldered".

[bluedigger]

78. Pretty straight forward

Blue fav color;pol id;hs/college color - you pick it!

...and digger 'cause that's what I do!

[2008]

79. 2008 is the year I was born

After the Dome Wars ended my dad suggested I take the SprintMac to the 1990s to see what the last years of the United States were like.

I made the mistake of taking my little brother along, and he's been joyriding and ran the thing out of deuterium-4, which won't be discovered until the year 2022.

So until then, we're screwed like the rest of you.

[baby_mouse]

80. Mouse is my animal totem.

... and when I started posting on DU, I was only a "baby" poster, a noob. Noranymore! If I get to change my name, I shall change it to something else, perhaps "grown-up mouse."

[NewWaveChick1981]

81. Mine's pretty simple...

1981 was the year I "found" New Wave music. :D I became a New Wave Chick back then. I started college in 1981 as well. :D